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#ONEEVENING26
One Evening 26, 14 MARCH 2026, EXPO CENTRE, LAHORE
Who is speaking
MOLANATARIQJAMEEL
TBA
TBA
TBA
WHAT YOU WALK OUT WITH
What you walk out with
- Leavewith one decision made, not twelve considered.
- Leaveknowing what your next thirty days look like.
- Leavewith the question you walked in carrying, answered.
- Leavewithout a phone in your hand for two hours.
- Leavehaving sat with people doing the same work.
- Leavewith the talk in your handwriting, not a screenshot.
- Leavewith a habit named and the first step already picked.
- Leaveclearer about what matters this year and what does not.
- Leavehaving heard the whole argument, not the clipped version.
- Leavewith the reading list you keep meaning to start.
- Leavewith a reason to bring someone next year.
- Leavewith your family knowing where you were and why.
How many times have you promised to change, and gone back to the same week?
Registration takes a minute. The evening does the rest.
TICKETS
Tickets
GENERAL
Free- Open seating, first come first seated
- Doors from 15:30, Gate 2 is step free
- Tea after the talk
RESERVED
PKR 2,500- Named seat in the first ten rows
- Early entry at 15:00
- Reading list booklet at the desk
- Proceeds fund the institute
GROUP OF FIVE
PKR 10,000- Five named seats together
- Early entry at 15:00
- One parking pass at Gate 2
- Five reading list booklets
WHAT IS ONE EVENING?
ONE EV.26
One Evening is a single sitting. One speaker, one hall, no interval and no edits. It runs from mid afternoon until the hall clears, and the whole address is delivered in one go rather than split into sessions you have to keep up with.
You leave with something written down. Every seat gets a booklet, the last half hour is given to questions the audience submitted, and nobody is asked to sign up for anything on the way out.
Photographs from the hall
Who is behind it
HILM INSTITUTE
HILM INSTITUTE
Hilm Institute has run reading groups and public talks in Lahore since 2019. We are not a media company. Nothing said in the hall is cut into clips, and nothing is put behind a paywall afterwards.
The institute is funded by reserved seats and by the people who come back every year. General entry stays free so that nobody is priced out of a room they wanted to be in.
One Evening is the largest thing we do. The rest of the year is small rooms, twenty people at a time, working through one book without a stage or a microphone.
WHERE THE MONEY GOES
WHERE THE MONEY GOES
Reserved seats are the only thing we charge for, and they pay for three things. There is no separate donation ask on this page, and there will not be one from the stage.
- The free seats.Roughly two thirds of the hall costs nothing to enter, and reserved tickets cover that gap.
- The small rooms.Twenty seat reading groups run all year in Lahore, free to join, no application.
- The booklets.Every seat gets printed material to take home, which is the only thing most people keep.
NOBODY PAYS
TO BE IN THE ROOM.
THE SMALL
ROOMS
THE HALL IS
FILLING UP
General entry is free and always will be. Registration closes the moment the last block of seats goes, and the desk scans your code at Gate 2.
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14 MARCH 2026
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